Hello once again Andi

If you don't mind one more suggestion...? Although the current groups and performers of Atlantic Canadian Folk music are certainly important to help keep these traditions alive I do, however, think it's not so much us but our sources: the fishermen, farmers, "housewives" (who did much more than housework), coal miners, carpenters, sailors, ship builders... who are as vital to Atlantic Canadian folk roots. If they did not learn and compose the songs and the stories, there would not be any Atlantic Canadian folk scene. They are the foundation upon which the rest of us build. And yes a big thank you can go to the likes of Stan Rogers and Figgy Duff and a few others for showing us that our music is indeed worthy of the world stage. But it's the working people of the Atlantic provinces who gave us much of our music and now, currently, our freedom to exercise that freedom by becoming performers and "vessels for the torch".

Cheers,

Dan